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...answer your questions. Be sure to tell the doctor if you or anyone in your family has ever had a corneal disorder, diabetes or an autoimmune disease. Such conditions may increase the chances that laser surgery will severely damage your eyesight. If you have particularly dry eyes or an ocular herpes infection, you aren't a good candidate either. If the first surgeon turns you down, don't go shopping for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: R U Ready To Dump Your Glasses? | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...plugging my tear ducts (outgoing, not incoming) to keep my eyes moist. A little improvement, which reversed when the temporary plugs dissolved. Another round hasn't helped much. The next step is permanent plugs, supposedly to create a tighter seal. I'm still soaking up bottled tears like an ocular desert and putting moisture goop in my eyes every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'm Still Waiting for My Miracle | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...across campus and may even stretch to other colleges. A friend at Amherst told me that a housing administrator admitted to him that dorm room lights were only supposed to be sufficient to find the switch for another light. If this is also the case at Harvard, a serious ocular injustice is occurring here. We may not need cable TV, and we now have two-ply toilet paper, but we desperately need light...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Coming Out of the Dark | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...later find. And there were moments of atmospheric appreciation at other times while I was an undergraduate: Lowell House's small courtyard, accessorized with snow and red mittens, is perhaps my favorite visual image, along with the sight of the blue bell tower from the river (not a wholly ocular confrontation, I confess--this sight was always accompanied by some narration like "Hey, I know somebody who lives there...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Loving the Lethargy of Summer | 7/26/1996 | See Source »

...early 1900s. They represent the very conception of culture that the Royal Academy, when such work was first seen in England before World War I, believed it was its mission to crush. If anyone still doubts that modernism is our academy, our official culture, here is the ocular proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Masters of the Modern | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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